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Daesung

대성

Daesung is a singer of BIGBANG, managed by R&D Company, where the D-LABLE organisation handles his music and live work. He hosts the YouTube show 집대성, and returned with G-Dragon and Taeyang for BIGBANG's 20th anniversary in August 2026.

Group
BIGBANG
Position
Vocalist
Agency
R&D Company
Debut
19 August 2006
Born
26 April 1989

Career

Daesung is managed by R&D Company, an artist production management firm established in 2021, which runs his music and live work through an organisation called D-LABLE.

He hosts 집대성 (ZIP Daesung), his own YouTube show. On 19 August 2026 — the day BIGBANG released BiiiG — episode 120 went out with the group as its guests.

That August he returned with G-Dragon and Taeyang for BIGBANG’s 20th-anniversary single and the world tour that opened at Goyang Stadium two days later.

Official video [SUB] 우리 캠핑 갈고야 | 집대성 ep.120 빅뱅 (BIGBANG) · 집대성YouTube ↗

Timeline

  1. Appearance

    World tour XX : COSMOS opens at Goyang Stadium

    A three-night run from 21 to 23 August opened a tour billed as 33 shows in 19 cities across Asia, North America, Europe and Oceania, running to February 2027. All three Goyang dates sold out.

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  2. Release

    20th-anniversary digital single BiiiG

    Released at 6 p.m. KST, the group's first new music since the digital single Still Life in April 2022 — a gap of about four years and four months.

    Explainer · Read the story
  3. Channel
  4. Channel

    '집대성' Ep. 118, with SEVENTEEN's Dino as guest

    BIGBANG's Daesung had SEVENTEEN's Dino on as his guest.

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  5. Channel

    '집대성' Ep. 117, with RESCENE as guests

    The video is titled '안녕하세요리센느입니다잘부탁드립니다'; asked how busy they were, Minami answered, "Every single day is busy."

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  6. Channel

    '집대성' Ep. 111, with aespa's Winter and Giselle as guests

    When Daesung said they were in their 7th year since debut, Giselle answered, "Time goes so fast."

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Group

BIGBANG

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BIGBANG

BIGBANG is the group of G-Dragon, Taeyang and Daesung, whose 2026 records come through YG Entertainment while the three record solo under different agencies. In August 2026 they marked their 20th debut anniversary with the single BiiiG and opened the world tour XX : COSMOS in Goyang.

Videos

Official video 대성(DAESUNG) '한도초과(HANDO-CHOGUA)' M/V · DAESUNGYouTube ↗
Official video 대성(DAESUNG) 'Universe' Official MV · DAESUNGYouTube ↗
Official video 대성(DAESUNG) 'Falling Slowly' Official MV · DAESUNGYouTube ↗

Stories

Explainer

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BIGBANG at 20: 'BiiiG' and the XX : COSMOS World Tour

BIGBANG — G-Dragon, Taeyang and Daesung — released the digital single 'BiiiG' on 19 August 2026 and opened the XX : COSMOS world tour in Goyang two days later. Here is what the charts recorded and where the official routing's 33 shows in 19 cities lead.

Feature

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BIGBANG in 2006: three singles in four months, then a first full-length album

BIGBANG released its first single on 29 August 2006, two more on 28 September and 22 November, and its first full-length album on 22 December. Four records in four months. Here they are, with the release dates, tracks and credits YG's official discography records.

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G-Dragon on the 'Geoje yaho' impression, Pinggyego Ep. 116

BIGBANG's G-Dragon, Taeyang and Daesung appeared on Episode 116 of Pinggyego, posted to the YouTube channel 'DdeunDdeun' on 22 August 2026. G-Dragon brought up a video impersonating RESCENE's members saying 'Geoje yaho', and said his own part goes by too short and too fast.

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BIGBANG's Goyang finale: what the three said on stage about 20 years

BIGBANG closed the Goyang leg of their 20th-anniversary world tour 'XX : COSMOS' on 23 August 2026 at Goyang Stadium. G-Dragon described the 20 years as the culmination of all their history, and the new song 'BiiiG' had its first live stage; the tour runs to 33 shows in 19 cities.

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Daesung's first solo mini album D's WAVE and its Asia tour encore: what happened

Daesung released his first solo mini album \"D's WAVE\" on 8 April 2025, opened the tour of the same name in Seoul and played 11 Asian cities, closing with a Seoul encore in January 2026 and Osaka shows on 31 January and 1 February. R&D Company said the Seoul encore sold out.

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G-Dragon's KAIST visiting professorship and the track sent into space

KAIST said on 5 June 2024 that it had appointed the singer G-Dragon as a visiting professor in its Department of Mechanical Engineering, for two years from 4 June 2024 to June 2026. On 9 April 2025 the university said it transmitted his track 'HOME SWEET HOME' into space.

Roundup

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BIGBANG Daesung's YouTube show '집대성' and its guests in the summer of 2026

'집대성' is the YouTube show BIGBANG's Daesung hosts. The channel describes it as Daesung's show about going out of the house, and a new episode goes up at 6 p.m. every Friday. Here are six episodes from June to August 2026, with their release dates, guests and view counts.